2009-01-07 City Has a Lot Fewer Heart Attacks After Smoking Ban
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than twenty of the fifty American states ban smoking in public…
2008-12-31 In Treating Hypothermia, Slow and Gentle Are Best
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid hypothermia and other cold-weather…
2008-12-24 Want to Stay Warm in the Winter? Think COLD
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Winter in many places means ice skating, sledding and snowball fights. But…
2008-12-17 Simple Measures Can Prevent Injuries to Children
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every day, more than two thousand children worldwide die from accidental injury.…
2008-12-10 Scientists See Progress on a Dengue Vaccine
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dengue fever is sometimes called “break-bone fever.” It produces intense pain in…
2008-12-03 Study Looks at Mental Disorders in College-Age Adults
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in the United States says mental disorders appear to…
2008-11-26 Feeling No Pain: The World of Anesthesia
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Anesthesia is used during operations and other medical procedures to block pain…
2008-11-19 Health: Keeping Ears Clean
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Some people’s ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be…
2008-11-12 Obama Team Reviews Bush’s Order on Stem Cells
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of…
2008-10-22 Colds, Flu and Folk Advice
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Autumn and winter are cold and flu season — when people are…
2008-10-15 Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned…
2008-10-01 New Money for Malaria
Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came…
2008-09-24 New Findings Add to Health Concerns About a Chemical in Plastics
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate plastic.…
2008-09-17 New Findings on Children and Mental Illness
This the VOA Special English Health Report. People who are schizophrenic sometimes hear voices or see things that are not…
2008-09-10 Teenagers and Pregnancy
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the…